CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE

Our global village is being continuously bedraggled and bemused by conflictual vortexes and counter-vortexes, and it has now become fundamentally imperative more than ever before to institutionalize instrumental actions of crises management and schism resolution to backpedal mankind from the epicenter of this anarchical entropy.

We need consultative initiatives, all-embracing strategic repositioning and synergistic altruism to enable us forestall the global tentacles of despotism, harrowing poverty, intellectual indolence, horrors of climate change and economic regressionalism etc. The United Nations, African Union (AU), Organization of American States (OAS), ASEAN, ECOWAS, COMMON WEALTH ORGANIZATION etc are pregnant with laudable ideas, but bereft of action in solving our political , socio-economic problems.

We call for a global renaissance that will revive these bodies from their anachronistic and somnambulistic dungeon. The political massacre in Guinea, Kangaroo referendum by the authorities in Niger Republic, the unrepresentative government of Sudan, Eritrea, the pirates in Somalia, corruption in Nigeria, terrorism  in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, political stalemate in Honduras and the return of political tyranny to Equtorial Guinea etc should be addressed. The climate change issue should go beyond the Kyoto protocol and the Copenhagen declaration. All hands must be on deck.

We call for the rekindling and resuscitation of the Inter Action Council (AIC): a gathering of former Heads of State and Government. A brain child of the late Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Takeo Fukuda. It was established in Vienna, Austria in 1980 to assist in conflict resolution and crisis management in the world. The original members of IAC included Fukuda, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, late Leopold Seder  Senghor of  Senegal and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of Germany. It has about 40 members.

The Inter Action Council (IAC) is an informal pressure group with a lot of influence throughout the world, and has intervened in several crisis situations and was instrumental in bringing international pressure to bear on the Abacha’s Government to release Obasanjo from jail in 1995. We therefore call on Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to orchestrate actions and fine-tune logistics aimed at bringing back the IAC and make it start performing its statutory role.

Obasanjo, given his political antecedents means many things to many people. Hence the cry, crucify him! Crucify him!! But we cannot take this one from him. Let him make moves to rekindle the IAC for we cannot throw away the baby and the bath water. The world is sinking into a tenebrous oubliette and a drowning man must hold on to the straw.

 CHIEF BOBSON GBINIJE

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